BRUTAL

• (adj.) disagreeably direct and precise

  "he spoke with brutal honesty"

• (adj.) (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering

  "a barbarous crime", "brutal beatings", "cruel tortures", "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks", "a savage slap", "vicious kicks"

  synonyms : barbarous , cruel , fell , roughshod , savage , vicious

• (adj.) resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility

  "beastly desires", "a bestial nature", "brute force", "a dull and brutish man", "bestial treatment of prisoners"

  synonyms : beastly , bestial , brute , brutish

  He was condemned for his bestial treatment of prisoners. -added by naila_inlas

• (adj.) harsh

  "the brutal summer sun", "a brutal winter"

  synonyms : unrelenting

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